AFRICAN ADVENTURE

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Now, to Africa!

I'm doing this newsletter slightly differently because I'm suggesting a homeschool project on Africa which you can adapt to all ages and the particular interests of your child.

Find out about:

African Animals

Peoples

Food, stamps, flags, money, mountains!

Travel to Africa

The best way to enjoy Africa without actually going there is to do it from home.

You can adapt this project to the interests and ages of your children.

Get your kids to pick a country which they are most interested in. If you've got any connections with a particular country - friends living there for example- that's a good start.

Take a large sheet of paper and get going!

Sample Africa

My children William and Catherine picked South Africa because our friend Wendy was born in Port Elizabeth.

That meant we had some real stuff to stick down:

Coins

Post cards

A wine label!

Then we thought about what we wanted to find out about. This is where you come in! What does your child find interesting? Animals?

Why not pick your favorites and:

Draw/paint some favorites

Look at some videos

Download some pictures

Plants

Why not see if you can buy or keep some that grow in your chosen country? My daughter Catherine started a new hobby growing Streptocarpus plants from the Drakensburg mountains on her windowsill.

What else would you like to find out about? Geography?

You could download or draw a map. It's nice to do fun things like stick some jewels on to represent diamond mines.

Peoples

Our Africa has videos made by the children to show you what life is like in their own countries.

Choose the country you want to visit by finding it on the map (if you can!) or from the pull-down menu.

YouTube

is fantastic here. So long as you check first to make sure the film content is OK, you'll find all sorts - we've seen dancing, people singing the national anthem, home videos of river trips, watched at live waterholes...

Books For Young Children

All the Colors of the Earth is a book for young children which teaches children that they are beautiful and that the people around
them (even those who look very different from them) are beautiful as
well!

It's a much-needed book that helps us celebrate that people come in all colors!

Older kids might like to know about the work of theelders.org,
an independent group chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu working to
resolve problems across the world, such as poverty, global warming and
conflict.

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Geocaching is a worldwide geography treasure hunt and one of our favorite activities.

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